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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Business

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Uva Pizza e Vino—Serving authentic Neopolitan pies in a wine bar setting

The sister restaurant to The Elm is rounding out the restaurant culture in downtown Great Barrington.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Handy handbook about the Country Roads of south Berkshire

Please get off the roads and into the woods. Please?
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: If the youth lacrosse season operated like ICE

Coaches would give large and powerful players a list of small and less powerful players whom they would be instructed to stalk, sneak up on, and take out of play.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: When in Rome, alone

I thought in going to Rome alone that I still wanted a "come what may" kind of life, but the truth is I have no tolerance for uncertainty anymore.
Life In the Berkshires

The right plants in the right places: A profile of NatureWorks

"[W]hat I want to tell people is, 'We want our lawns and our home landscaping to be alive. We want ladybugs, we want butterflies. We want earthworms. We want birds. You want to step out of your back door and not worry that you're exposing yourself to carcinogens,'" said NatureWorks owner Rich Lassor.
Business

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on The Station—a new chef-driven gastropub opens in Lee

The owners of two popular Berkshire food trucks, Charlie's Bistro Bus and Berkshire Cone, have launched a brick-and-mortar operation.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Cruelty cannot be our point

If the process of making America "Great Again" turns us inward and convinces us to stop using our outsized wealth to serve the world’s less wealthy, we will all be lessened, and the country will be weakened.
Business

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Fuel—gearing up for the busy season ahead

With winter's thaw, the Great Barrington mainstay is looking to capitalize on higher foot traffic come spring and summer.
Viewpoints

Snow Days: 1980 v. 2025

Snow days have changed just a little bit in the last 45 years.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The Preamble

The worthiest enemy of authoritarianism is authority. But who are the authoritative heroes available to us, and to the younger generations in particular? Who speaks a truth that everyone can get behind?
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: My day as a French baker

The occasion for the competition—which I played against the limitations of my home kitchen and personality—was the arrival in my house of a box of pears.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: A roomful of gifts

Hope is also all around. In my own house, it is literally all around.
Life In the Berkshires

PROFILE: Monument Mountain Building Project Committee member Stephen Boyd of Boyd Biomedical

"We've heard a lot nationally about rebuilding the middle class," said Boyd. "That starts with education, and with taking the long view on homegrown talent. That's what the new Monument offers.”
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: If I were a dove

A parent's snow-day lament.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: The world is on fire

For the first time in my 52 years, my world, my home hills, the container of my life, the setting for my childhood and grown-up dreams, is actually—rather than metaphorically—on fire.
Life In the Berkshires

Monument Mountain Regional High School’s 2024 Career Day features student experts

A recurring theme on Career Day was the way in which many people end up accessing a field related to their passions, but through a side door.
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